When officials in Ireland announced in June they would soon begin digging at a suspected mass grave for children born to unwed mothers, AP staffers in the U.K. immediately began planning an all-formats package. They knew interest would be intense in what was found at the site, a former home for those mothers run by Catholic nuns.
Over three days in the town of Tuam, Melley, Ha and Morrison pieced together a story that began with the home’s opening in the 1920s, then stretched to the grave’s discovery by a boy in the 1970s and most recently the amateur historian who uncovered the true story of the home. Their work was presented in an all-formats package that sensitively captured decades of painful history that families and survivors are still grappling with.
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